The daily struggle to survive in Honduras

The Telegraph's Philip Sherwell journeys to Tegucigalpa in Honduras, the most
dangerous country on the planet outside a full-fledged war zone

8:42PM GMT 16 Nov 2013

Violent crime is rife in Honduras. The murder rate reached an unenviable global high of 85 for every 100,000 residents last year, and is on course to reach 90 per 100,000 in 2013.

The increase is due to expanding drug operations by South American drug cartels.

The question of how to tackle this epidemic of gang and drug violence, which exploded after Honduras became the key staging post for cocaine smuggling from South America to the US, is the overwhelming issue facing the candidates in next Sunday's presidential elections.